Currently, the Russian vaccine has been approved for emergency use in 60 countries.

The approval comes as good news at a time when India is dealing with a record-breaking second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The country has been clocking an average of over 100,000 cases over the past week, and several states have run out of vaccines.

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